Casual Funeral Service Operative

2 weeks ago

South Shields, United Kingdom Dignity Plc Full time

**Casual Funeral Service Operative**

**Casual - as and when required**

**R S Johnson & Sons Funeral Directors, Western Approach, South Shields**

**£10.94 per hour + on-call ancillary payments**

At Dignity, we are proud to work in a unique industry. We succeed by helping people through difficult times with compassion, respect, openness and care.

We offer a range of challenging and rewarding roles for caring individuals across the funeral profession. We continually invest in our staff, premises and vehicles so that we can ensure clients and their loved ones receive the highest standard of care. Every day, we want to exceed our customers’ expectations, we aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

**R S Johnson & Sons Funeral Directors in South Shields was built in 1969. We set out to provide our local community with chapels of rest, so bereaved families could pay their final respects to loved ones before saying farewell.**

**We help families by continuing to provide the highest standards of funeral care, service and facilities. Our funeral home is equipped with premium facilities, including our three chapels of rest.**

**R S Johnson & Sons Funeral Directors are looking for a dedicated, professional and empathetic individual to join our committed and collaborative team as a Funeral Service Operative. Our values: Professional, Compassion, Respect & Knowledge form the basis of all our interactions and recognising this, you will be giving back to families in a critical time, whilst ensuring that their loved ones are treated with the utmost respect and dignity.**

Alongside a highly collaborative, supportive team, we will give you the room to stretch and develop within the industry. With both training and learning opportunities, our dedicated Learning and Development team and management team will ensure that you are delivered full training to confidently perform this role and will also promote your progression. Alongside this, Dignity Plc really believes in our people, so you will also have access to a wide range of Mental and Financial Well-being tools, access to financial support and a broad range of benefits

**What Will I Be Doing as A Funeral Service Operative?**

As a Funeral Service Operative, you will be at the very heart and focal point of our business, persistently delivering consistently high levels of client services to the deceased and their families.

Some of our posts will require you to assist our on-call rota at night and on the weekend, though this will be fully discussed with you throughout the recruitment process.

**Other duties will include**:

- Being part of the funeral service by bearing the coffin and driving company vehicles
- Preparing and ensuring the cleanliness of vehicles
- Assisting the Funeral Director with pre-funeral checks including route planning and address checking.
- Aid with bringing the deceased into our care

**What Do I Need?**
- A full UK driving licence
- Good level of physical fitness, as this role will involve heavy lifting duties
- The necessary documentation for a basic DBS, reference & driving licence check.
- Pride in your appearance, ensuring you are always professional
- A caring and empathetic nature
- The determination to deliver excellent client services
- Be able to work well in a team

**Advantageous**:

- Previous experience in the industry, though this is not required, as full training will be provided.

**The Benefits**:

- Flexible working hours
- Work around personal/other work commitments.
- Opportunity to work and give something back to your local community

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**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement**

Our Vision is to connect with our clients, colleagues, company and communities based on our principles whilst celebrating our differences.

We aim to empower leaders and colleagues to seek out and understand new voices and perspectives; to be vocal about inequity and exclusion, and take decisive, informed and bold action to promote inclusion and belonging.

**Job ID: 4305

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